摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image pickup unit where the simplification and cost- reduction of a structure are attained while securing plural photographing magnifications. SOLUTION: At the image pickup unit, one image formation lens means 8 is composed of a lens system 5, and an optical splitting means 12 is arranged between an image pickup system 4 and the image formation lens means 8, and the image pickup system 4 is composed of plural CCDs 10 and 11 whose sizes are same and whose numbers are same as the numbers of image pickup branching optical paths 13 and 14 making light splitted by the optical splitting means 12 incident on the image pickup system 4, and image pickup positions H and L for the image formation lens means 8 are set only by a number corresponding to the number of each CCD 10 and 11. |